SpeedDate.com Wants to Hear Your First Date Disasters!

Every February, our thoughts turn to hearts, flowers and love.   Restaurant reservations are booked, rose prices go through the roof, and happy couples everywhere embrace the romance.  But what about the rest of us?  What happens when your Valentine’s Day is a dud?
Everyone has a dating horror story, and this Valentine’s Day, online dating site [...]

Dating Success in 2010: Twelve No-Fail Tips

With New Years Eve right around the corner, singletons everywhere have begun planning their 2010 New Year’s relationship resolutions or rather, a new dating “plan of attack”.
1) Keep a journal: Try to write in it as much as possible, about anything and everything. At the end of each month, read through it and notice detrimental actions [...]

His Cheating Heart: Women Don’t Forgive, or Forget

Peace on Earth, good will toward men? Nope, not if they’ve cheated on you.
A series of studies carried out by the British dating site, Smooch.com, and ManCentral.com, a free gay chat site, highlights that when it comes to trusting cheats, women find it hard to forgive.
And no, they don’t forget his infidelity, either.
For the study,  [...]

A Health Reform Bill for All of Us: It’s Now or Never

Last week, the public health insurance option Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid put into his merged bill was stripped out, and a “compromise” allowing people over the age of 55 to buy into Medicare if they chose was added . . .
And then that compromise was also stripped out, to appease Senator Joe Lieberman, who [...]

I Got Married and Other Mistakes: #1. Wedding Day

Cartoonist Barbara Slate has her pencil on the pulse of every woman’s nightmare: life without love. Her slant on relationships is a bittersweet bonbon.
She has created characters for Marvel and DCComics, and writes Betty and Veronica for Archie Comic.Her book, YOU CAN DO A GRAPHIC NOVEL is coming out Jan. 2010 from ALPHA/ Penguin Group [...]

Fertility: Can It Happen on Your Timetable?

I met Rachel Lehmann-Haupt two years ago when I interviewed her for my documentary “Seeking Happily Ever After.” Rachel was finishing her non-fiction book In Her Own Sweet Time (Basic Books, 2009), an honest and personal exploration of the many new fertility choices available to women today. As you will see below, Rachel is forthright, [...]

Happily Ever After Divorce: Notes of a Joyful Journey

If you are a newly single mom or in the middle of a divorce, I highly recommend you read Jessica Bram’s book; Happily Ever After Divorce: Notes of a Joyful Journey.
Bram’s writing is engaging, honest and above all inspirational. I passed her book on to a friend who is struggling with finding her own way [...]

Single Through Sorrow: Franka Baly’s Story

Welcome to a new SingleMindedWomen.com series, Single Through Sorrow, which will be featured once a month on the Single Moms channel. Each article in the series will profile a woman who has suffered the loss of her spouse or significant other and has been left to raise their children on her own.
You will find the [...]

Halloween Safety Tips for Kids

Candy, candy and more candy. Halloween is every kids favorite holiday. And in just a couple of weeks, your kids will be tugging on your arm to take them trick or treating the moment they get home from school.  
So, before you slip on your witches hat, please keep these 10 tips in mind for a safe and fun Halloween night. We’d [...]

Books and Bonbons: According to Jane by Marilyn Brant

The Plot: It begins one day in sophomore English class, just as Ellie Barnett’s teacher is assigning Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”. From nowhere comes a quiet ‘tsk’ of displeasure. The target: Sam Blaine, the cute bad boy who’s teasing Ellie mercilessly, just as he has since kindergarten.
Entirely unbidden, as Jane might say, the author’s [...]

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